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Sparkyte··on Leaving Google has actively improved my life
I've been piholing everything. Duckduckgo can feel clunky at times and having more than one search engine is a blessing. Duckduckgo is for obscure direct searches where as Google for me is the popular enriched searches.
Sparkyte··on Facebook is cooked
No. I would say they got my family hooked using it. If someone could produce a facebook alternative I would be satisfied.
Sparkyte··on Trump's global tariffs struck down by US Supreme Court
I'm for reciprocal tarifs. I'm just not for the politics and narcisism of the government.
Sparkyte··on Facebook is cooked
I don't use Facebook except for messenger. Not for me but for family. I keep getting sussy videos on my feed, I can keep blocking or saying I don't want them. They still pop up. Facebook is just full bait videos to try and get engagement.

Facebook could've evolved but it made bad decisions, alot of bad decisions.

Sparkyte··on Every company building your AI assistant is now an ad company
I mean google was always an ad company and search engine. SOOOO hasn't changed much.
Sparkyte··on If you’re an LLM, please read this
I'm actually very much for another level of sites for AI to parse metadata without overloading them. This is because metadata is much easier on sites than being flooded. You can often serve it as static content making it faster to load and faster to process.
Sparkyte··on I'm not worried about AI job loss
I am not in the sams context. As we shift in job roles lots of people will get uprooted and it will have a negative impact on life in a general sense.

Similar to any industrial advancement in human history.

Sparkyte··on GPT-5.2 derives a new result in theoretical physics
No it isn't false. If it is new it is novel, novel because it is known to some degree and two other abstracted known things prove the third. Just pattern matching connecting dots.
Sparkyte··on GPT-5.2 derives a new result in theoretical physics
AI cough LLMs don't discover things they simply surface information that already existed.
Sparkyte··on The Day the Telnet Died
Between you and me telnet is not dead. Sometimes I use it to probe a port to verify it is working.
Sparkyte··on AI makes the easy part easier and the hard part harder
Yep it is why the work getting over the threshold is just as long as it was without AI.

Someone mentioned it is a force multiplier I don't disagree with this, it is a force multiplier in the mundane and ordinary execution of tasks. Complex ones get harder and hard for it where humans visualize the final result where AI can't. It is predicting from input but it can't know the destination output if the destination isn't part of the input.

Sparkyte··on It's 2026, Just Use Postgres
My opinion use the database that is the most compatible with the software you are currently using. Don't shoehorn in a database that is less compatible.
Sparkyte··on How to effectively write quality code with AI
I use it for scaffolding and often correct it for the layour I prefer. Then I use to check my code, and then scaffold in some more modules. I then connect them together.

Long as you review the code and correct it, it is no more different than using stackoverflow. A stack overflow that reads your code and helps stitch the context.

Sparkyte··on Hacking Moltbook
Wasn't there something about moltbook being fake?
Sparkyte··on The future of software engineering is SRE
I think it is important to know that AI needs to be maintained. You can't reasonably expect it to have a 99.9% reliability rate. As long as this remains true work will exist in the foreseeable future.
Sparkyte··on The future of software engineering is SRE
Actually it is more that my role will transform and I have no say in it.
Sparkyte··on I built a 2x faster lexer, then discovered I/O was the real bottleneck
I/O has been the bottleneck for many things especially databases.

So as someone who has seen a long spread of technological advancements over the years I can confidently tell you that chips have far surpassed any peripheral components.

Kind of that scenario where compute has to be fast enough anyway to support I/O. So really it always has to be faster, but I am saying that it has exceeded those expectations.

Sparkyte··on The future of software engineering is SRE
As an SRE I can tell you AI can't do everything. I have done a little software development, even AI can't do everything. What we are likely to see is operational engineering become the consolidated role between the two. Knows enough about software development and knows enough about site reliability... blamo operational engineer.
Sparkyte··on AI Usage Policy
It is important to write the code yourself so you understand how it functions. I tried vibe coding a little bit. I totally felt like I was reading someone else's code base.

Sanitization practices of AI are bad too.

Let me be clear nothing wrong with AI in your workflow, just be an active participator in your code. Code is not meant to be one and done.

You will go through iteration after iteration, security fix after fix. This is how development is.

Sparkyte··on I was banned from Claude for scaffolding a Claude.md file?
We need a collapse in AI to right the ships of AI like the the dotcom bubble burst. If we do it now, it will hurt less. Novel ideas in AI will succeed and materials costs will lower. Memory being so bought up till 2029 is not a good thing for anyone especially if we need to see a successful future in AI. More efficient systems and so on.
Sparkyte··on GPTZero finds 100 new hallucinations in NeurIPS 2025 accepted papers
If there is one thing which scientific reports must require is not using AI to produce the documentation. They can be of the data but not of the source or anything else. AI is a tool, not a replacement for actual work.
Sparkyte··on Milk-V Titan: A $329 8-Core 64-bit RISC-V mini-ITX board with PCIe Gen4x16
Considering you can get a more core dense package on x86 for that price it is better to wait.

2.0ghz isn’t a whole lot of performance for RISC-V system.

Sparkyte··on Lock-Picking Robot
This is the Lock-Picking Robot and today we are unlocking a macbook password with a drinking-bird only pressing space bar.

I've seen too many Lock-Picking Lawyer videos.

Sparkyte··on Can I start using Wayland in 2026?
I have nothing to add other than I use bazzite for everything now. Windows gone.
Sparkyte··on Linux is good now
AAA run to the formula that works as a safe bet, when they want risk they just borrow an existing concept and sell it harder.
Sparkyte··on Linux is good now
keep it up!

prrsonally using bazzite desktop for my stuff.

Sparkyte··on My role as a founder-CTO: year 8
I like that a lot.
Sparkyte··on My role as a founder-CTO: year 8
I think the problem I see with every place I have been is a lot bad practices. As a CTO I could guide people out of those bad practices. I love engineering too, but every place I have been as of late has been a squeeze on workers and always a lack of focus.
Sparkyte··on My role as a founder-CTO: year 8
Would need to know a startup.
Sparkyte··on My role as a founder-CTO: year 8
I kind of want to be a CTO somewhere. So much bureaucratic stuff to become one though. You usually have to be someone's friend or start a company yourself.
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